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On 12/18/2017 03:25 PM, David Haller wrote: |
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> ISTR, .localdomain is the new .local... |
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> BTW: I hate it how .local got ursurped by zeroconf/mDNS. |
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You were never allowed to use .local in the first place =P |
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I learned some interesting things from RFC 8244, the first being that |
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they have an up-to-date list of reserved names: |
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https://www.iana.org/assignments/special-use-domain-names/special-use-domain-names.xhtml |
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and the second being that there are two exceptions, because oops, they |
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didn't follow their own rules (.home and ipv4only.arpa). localdomain |
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isn't on there. |
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There are no safe, free names to use for an internal network. On the one |
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hand, RFC 8244 makes a decent argument that this is a good thing, |
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because it guarantees that every hostname is globally unique (so if I |
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copy/paste a URL to you, it goes the same place on your machine as it |
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did mine). On the other hand, I hate the idea of paying some bureaucrat |
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to be able to use my own network. |
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